>> well, the united states cannot afford to flee under fire. in libya, i think president obama's actually doing the right thing by sending in additional marines and maintaining our dip -- diplomatic presence. e just a minute -- egypt is another question, however. it's the accountability at best that the egyptian government was negligent. the idea that the united states has to subsidize governments like this is a question which many people ask back in washington. gerri: michael, we are subsidizing that government. as a matter of fact, we decided to forgive a billion of debt they owe us. >> well, one of the big policy questions that's looming over the horizon is whether egypt is too big to fail much since the arab sprang began, egypt lost more than two-thirds of the hard currency reserves. initially, the arab spring was about economics, accountability, corruption. it's clear that islamists have hijacked it. they were caught by as much surprise as the united states has. the question is if we keep subsidizing the egyptian government, do we, in effe